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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I know this might be hard to believe, but I’m not this
beautiful every day.

My long withstanding track record of being practically
perfect in every way has led many to believe that I roll out of bed with
fabulous hair and flawless skin and abs that could deflect a bullet like a
sheet of titanium. While flattered, I must admit this is just not true.

In 7th grade, I wanted purple contacts because
apparently that would make me cool, and I needed all the help I could get. Guys check it out! I’m like Elizabeth
Taylor! Wait is it not cool to know who that is? Shit.

I’m an asset on road trips as I can read exit signs at
least eight hundred yards away. “Exit 69
is the next one.” *GPS: In half a mile, take Exit 69 on the right* “Boom.”

I should be walking around batting my eyelashes and
winking and staring judgmentally and doing whatever else a person with perfect
vision can do, shouldn’t I? Yes I should, and about 95% of the time that’s
exactly what I do. But like I said, I’m not this beautiful every day, and
sometimes I just want to throw my fabulous hair up in a messy bun and hide the
bod under a baggy t-shirt and generally just look like a big mess while
hopefully still hinting at a bit of inherent sexiness so as not to disappoint
my fans.

You know which demographic pulls this off at the expert
level? Girls who wear glasses.

What I strive for, minus the cig

I have always been jealous of the girls who were “running
late” aka didn’t feel like wearing mascara that day and slipped on their
glasses along with their sweatpants, managing to look laid back and hot all at
the same time. But what were my special eyes to do in order to
achieve the same effect?

Buy fake glasses. Natch.

Now if I, with my spot-on memory, recall, I initially
bought the fake glasses for a school girl-themed party my sophomore year of
college. It would have been a waste of money to just love them and leave them
after one simple soiree, so I started to break those babies out more and more.
Research Strategies class at 9 a.m.? Glasses ON, attention span OFF. Literary
Critical Theory class? I needed to look as intelligent as I could (that class
was impossible). Hungover at Denny’s on Sunday morning? Suddenly I looked like
less of a disaster. The fake glasses completed me.

Unfortunately, I didn’t anticipate the consequences. Sure,
my friends knew that my glasses weren’t real, but no one else did. Initially,
this was the point. But then one day, I was at Subway with a guy I was dating
and he suggested we switch glasses to see who had worse eyes, snatching mine
off of my face before I had a second to protest.

“Wow, your prescription is really light,” he laughed. “My
eyes are so much worse than yours!”“You have no idea…” I said quietly, and then had to
explain in front of God, this guy, and the Sandwich Artist that I was a fraud.

So now you know: I’m as flawless as you’ve always
believed, I’m just an immaculate secret-keeper. I now make it a point to fully
disclose my ocular situation to every old friend and new acquaintance so 1)
there’s no confusion about my perfection and 2) they back off and let me
pretend I’m one of the cool girls FOR ONCE.

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Let us remember in this transitioning season of cooler weather and not having to shave our legs (except on weekends) that although leggings are both comfortable and cheap ($8.80 at Forever 21, cha-ching), there are certain rules that we need to be mindful of.

And Skylar spake all these words, saying, "I am the Fashion Police, who has brought thee out of the land of unfortunate highlights and quesitonable trends, out of the house of ill-fitting clothes."

1. Thou shalt not wear leggings as pants - If they were supposed to be pants, we would call them "pants." It is that simple. They're spandex and/or cotton and are basically a step up from actual skin, the world would really rather not be forced to experience your inevitable camel toe. Buy longer shirts.

2. Thou shalt not reveal a VPL - Do you know why guys lose their minds over legging season? Because of unadulterated views of our bootays. If you're going to offer it up, have some respect for yourself and for your audience and make the event run smoothly, aka without visible panty lines. 0.00% of people find granny panties sexy, therefore the line dissecting your donk is an immediate boner killer. Channel your inner Sisqo and invest in some thong tha-thong thong thongs.

3. Thou shalt not get colorful - Story time! Once, at the beginning of my senior year of college, I was walking to class on a particularly warm September morning. Technically Legging Season had begun, I guess, but it was like 85 degrees before 10 a.m., so clearly Skirt Season was still alive and well. A particularly shapely girl was walking in front of me, and had embraced the season full-force. Unfortunately, she had done so in light grey leggings, and hustling across the street before the walk sign timed out was particularly stressful. This led to back sweat. And crescent moon sweat (a delicate semicircular patch right below the tush). And I could see it. Had she been wearing leggings in the standard and universally acceptable hues of black, navy, and daaaark grey, my eyesight wouldn't have been accosted, but as it was I was made involuntarily aware of the fact that her leggings had never been worn for athletic purposes. Don't be like Betty McButtsweat; stay on the dark side.

4. Thou shall stay in thy legging lane - Let's get this straight: ladies of all shapes and sizes are absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. There, that's done. Now let us all agree that leggings in a size 3XL might not be the most responsible decision by society. We can refer to commandment #1 for the main reason why this is a bad call. If you question whether or not you should be wearing leggings, chances are the answer is, "Nuh-uh." Spandex is a privilege, not a right.

5. Thou shalt not expect a miracle - If you've gained fifteen pounds and put on your black leggings with the hope that they'll suck everything in, you look like you stuffed fifteen extra pounds into a very unwilling sausage casing. If you're trying to abide by commandment #2 but overstep your boundaries and go commando, thinking no one will know the difference, you're overestimating the opacity of stretch cotton. If you have zero butt whatsoever and put on your leggings with the hope that you'll all of a sudden reach Kim K status, you not only need to aim a little higher, but you're also going to be extremely disappointed. Leggings are like the guy who has a fun sense of humor, a great job, and clean fingernails: he seems perfect in theory, but there's definitely some underlying cocaine addiction or toe fetish happening there. Too good to be true.

So that's that. Break out your leggings and your boots and your infinity scarves, but do so properly. Skylar said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Legging Season has come to test you, so that the fear of VPL will be with you to keep you from looking truly heinous.” Amen.

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